Ryan dancing at the Lake house
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I was at my lake house (in dream only) and there was some party or something that my parents had thrown. I don't remember all the details about the whole party, but I do know that eventually my parents and my brother left and so the whole people still at the house were me and Ryan. He was in the living room doing some work, and I was in a different room on the computer talking on the MUD to a couple of my students. I was getting a kick out of what they were saying and wanted to tell Ryan.
Ryan was being in a very pissy mood. At first I thought it was because he had so much work to do, but as the night went on I learned that he had some disease. Because of a foot injury, there were complications and he had some kind of parasite in him, that people could apparently catch by touching his skin if he hadn't thoroughly scrubbed and cleaned every inch of his body. It took me about half of the dream for me to figure this out (and him to tell me), so the first half was me trying to figure out why he wouldn't let me touch him.
He came over to see what was going on online, and of course I did reach out for him, but he just backed away. Then I followed him into the living room to find out what he was working on. There was a TV and a stereo in this room, and he was watching some crime show. I kept trying to get close to him, but he kept backing away. At one point, I think we both ended up in a dark closet. I can feel the thick coats that I'm leaning against. He came in with me and closed the door - like, if no one could possibly see us touching, it would be okay. I could feel his cheek close to mine. I don't think we kissed, or even held each other, but we did stand close. We finally left the closet but something had changed in Ryan and suddenly he didn't care. The next time I tried to put my arms around me, he let me. Then he told me what was going on.
We tried very hard to make sure that we didn't touch skin-to-skin, but I know at one point I did but my hand on the small of his back. Then, for some reason, Ryan wanted to dance. We turned off the TV and went to the stereo and put on some soundtracky, Sinatra-esque music and we danced. The first dance was just a slow, middle-school, put-arms-around-and-rock-back-and-forth dance. Then I remember something took me away from him, maybe a phone call. I was sitting on the couch and afterwards he walked up to be, held out his hand, and brought me back to his arms for more dancing, with arms held at proper positions. We slow danced, there were a couple songs we actually tried to do fake steps to, and eventually we were cuddle dancing (he stood behind me with his arms wrapped around me and we were just swaying).
Eventually though, Ryan decided he had to leave. Something about the disease was freaking him out and he couldn't be around any one. So he was starting to gather up his things, but I decided I would leave the lake house too and go with him (he didn't really know this though). As I was upstairs putting things together and looking for my brush, Ryan was trying to sneak away downstairs. Suddenly there was this child (I believe it was me), about 11 years old, long curly dirty blonde hair. And she ran up to Ryan and demanded that he did not leave. She said "You cannot just abandon our relationship we've just started!!". While Ryan was trying to console the child and still get away, I was still upstairs and knew that he was just going to leave me. I walked out on to my balcony, and looked out over the lake. I horrible storm was coming. To the right of me was bright setting-sun sky, to the left, just over the mountain, was pure blackness with occasional flashes of lightening. It terrified me.
I ran downstairs to turn on the weather channel and see what we were in for, and meanwhile to go find Ryan because I was scared. I think at one point he was up on the road, just about ready to get into his car, when one of us - either me or the little girl - found him (I think she did and then brought him to me). I told him about the storm coming, and he said he would go look. So he took the girl and they walked to the beach to look at the weather. The blackness was coming closer, but had started to turn more grey than simply be jet black and I saw that it was a very small storm - I could see behind the black clouds to just a dark blue evening sky. Ryan picked up the little girl, put her on his shoulders, and walked towards the setting-sun.
I have no idea where the dream went from there, but before waking up I know there was some clip of learning that I too had the parasite in me, and I was going to some doctor to get some freaky treatment to try to get it out (a la Matrix). It would run around under my skin, and it freaked everyone out. At one point my face turned black, but I didn't really care. Because it was totally worth dancing with Ryan for.
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I originally woke up at 9 and would have gotten up, but decided to roll over for just a few more minutes of sleep. This is the dream I had.
